Simon Willison's Weblog: upshttp://simonwillison.net/2009-04-02T10:47:59+00:00Simon WillisonGoogle uncloaks once-secret server2009-04-02T10:47:59+00:002009-04-02T10:47:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/2/batteries/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20">Google uncloaks once-secret server</a></strong></p>
Instead of a data centre wide UPS and redundant power supplies, each Google server has its own 12V battery. They live in standard shipping containers, each holding 1,160 servers.
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